Author: Krobea

This was pressure cooker stuff for Isaac Dogboe. More like a David-versus-Goliath situation where Goliath triumphs. Nothing different from what was seen in the first fight last December. The sweet smell of Mexican flavour flowing through the Convention Centre in Arizona. Navarrette had it. Crowd support, power, tactics, composure. Everything. From the offset, the Mexican Emmanuel Navarrette controlled the fight and played it all to his advantage till he finally won with a technical knockout in the 12thround. Punch after punch, round after round Naverrette kept coming into his own, making fewer mistakes and using his merits to overpower the…

Police in Kibi in the Eastern Region on Friday night nabbed a sixth suspect in the beating to death of the headmaster of Salvation Army Basic School at Asiakwa. Evans Aboagye, 18, was arrested from his hideout around 8:00pm. “[He] is currently detained in custody assisting investigation,” the police stated. The suspect is among six persons – all in police custody – said to have beaten George Somuah Bosompem, who doubled as Religious & Moral Education teacher, resulting in his death. Four of the six suspects arrested so far have been facing trial at the Kibi District Magistrate Court for…

Former President Jerry John Rawlings has expressed concern that though Ghana has been able to achieve electoral democracy, she has been unable to translate that into combatting and containing corruption. He said a good system of democracy should be able to contain corruption, stating that while a lack of democracy is usually associated with tyranny and corruption, Ghana has been able to achieve electoral democracy without its associated reward of the containment of corruption. “We can judge the quality of democracy by the extent to which it is able to bring on board the participation, the strength, the defiance, the…

Mother of self-acclaimed dancehall king Shatta Wale is calling for peace to prevail between his son and his baby mama. When Christian Agyei Frimpong, host of Onua 95.1 FM’s entertainment talk show Anigye Mmre asked Madam Elsie Evelyn Avemegah if his son has ever hurt her, she stated that her only issue with her son is the issues between him and Shatta Michy. “My son has three children with three different ladies,” she disclosed. “I don’t really know where they are now apart from Shatta Mitchy, who is currently in Ghana but for the sake of my grandchildren who are his…

Vice President Alhaji Dr. Mahamudu Bawumia on Friday began the first phase of a nationwide Ramadan tour. The three-day tour will see him visit a number of mosques in the Oti, Volta and Eastern Regions, during which he will join his fellow Muslims to pray for Ghana as they fast. He toured the Oti Region on the first day by paying a courtesy call on the Chiefs and people of Dambai traditional area. The Vice President Bawumia also visited the central mosques in Dambai, Kwamekrom and Kadjebi to join the faithfuls to pray. At the Dambai Palace, a highly elated…

A man shot a woman in a parking lot and then fled in a vehicle, police said Police were searching for a gunman who fatally shot a woman in the head in the parking lot of a Maryland office building Friday. The woman, identified as 44-year-old Bettie Jenifer of Bowie, had left the office in the 6300 block of Ivy Lane and was walking to her car when a man armed with a handgun approached her, the Greenbelt Police Department said. When she tried to run away, the man followed her and fired off multiple rounds, with at least one…

At least 65 migrants have died after their boat capsized in the Mediterranean off the coast of Tunisia, the UN refugee agency says. Sixteen people were rescued, UNHCR said in a statement. Survivors say the boat left Zuwara in Libya on Thursday and ran into trouble during strong waves. About 164 people died on the route between Libya and Europe in the first four months of 2019, UNHCR figures show. The incident is thought to be one of the deadliest shipwrecks involving migrants since the start of the year. The survivors were brought to the coast by the Tunisian Navy…

The Council of Elders of the National Democratic Congress (NDC) has accused the police of doing the bidding of the Akufo-Addo-led government by intimidating officers of the largest opposition party. The Council also alleges that the latest invitation the Criminal Investigations Department (CID) of the Ghana Police Service to the National Chairman, Samuel Ofosu-Ampofo, to appear before it is an attempt by the government to divert attention from the insecurity in the country. The Council’s Vice Chairman, Alhaji Mahama Iddrisu, made these remarks on Thursday, May 9 while addressing journalists at the party’s headquarters in Adabraka, Accra. Alhaji Mahama Iddrisu…

Lawyers of the National Chairman of the National Democratic Congress (NDC) are storming the headquarters of the Ghana Police Service to meet the head of the Criminal Investigations Department (CID). Samuel Ofosu-Ampofo was invited by the CID after it said his name came up in investigations into the recent cases of kidnappings and fire outbreaks on state institutions. Speaking on TV3’s Midday Live on Thursday, a member of the legal team of the NDC, Abraham Amaliba, said the lawyers will be there at 1:00pm. But they are not enthused about the invitation given to their client. “We see it as…

The Eastern Regional Police Command is appealing to the public to help them apprehend the last of six suspects, who beat the headmaster of Salvation Army Basic School at Asiakwa, resulting in his death. The police say the last suspect has been identified as Aboagye, who is popularly known as ‘Otorgo’, a 19-year-old JHS drop out. He is currently on the run after the incident. On Wednesday, May 8, a fifth suspect, Hezekiel Boadu, was arrested in Accra by the Criminal Investigations Department (CID) of the Ghana Police Service. He has been taken to court to face the law. The…